PINELLAS PARK \u2014 A 57-year-old Clearwater woman died after a PSTA bus driver turned left despite a red light and collided with her vehicle, the Florida Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n
The bus driver, a 38-year-old Pinellas Park man, was stopped at a red light at Roosevelt Boulevard and Lake Carillon Drive on Dec. 20 when he turned left into the path of a Nissan Armada traveling east on Roosevelt Boulevard, according to FHP.<\/p>\n
The vehicles collided, and the bus driver, who wasn’t wearing a seat belt, was ejected from the bus, troopers said.<\/p>\n
Both drivers were injured and taken to a hospital, FHP said. The woman, a passenger in the Armada, suffered serious injuries and was taken to a hospital, where she died.<\/p>\n
The Armada’s driver, a 57-year-old Clearwater man, also was injured, troopers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINELLAS PARK \u2014 A 57-year-old Clearwater woman died after a PSTA bus driver turned left despite a red…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1339,618,596,4226,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-95082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-clearwater","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-park","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}